Liverpool fans not from Liverpool


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Lucky for me, Sunderland will never be successful, so no one will ever find out I'm just a plastic glory-hunter :cool:
 
If you grow up without parents/ family being football fans, the exposure you’re going to get to football is 99% going to be Premier League clubs. You’re not going to have Sky Sports or BT so it’ll be Match of the day, final score, maybe the occasional FA Cup game etc...

You’d have to be mental at that age not to choose one of the big teams as they’re the ones with the superstars, scoring all the goals and winning all the games. I can totally get why someone is a glory supporter.

Also, it is really really hard to get tickets to watch Liverpool, Chelsea etc... (Maybe not the Manchester clubs tbf). So I can understand why loads of them don’t go often. But to have never been at all and to call yourself a fan, fuck off.
 
what joy do these plastic idiots get from being a glory hunter?
Just seen several people interviewed at the parade, not one of them was a scouser

You may as well support France or Brazil at the next World Cup!!!

Sad bastards IMO
3/4 of mates are like this, been to Anfield or Liverpool probably once in their lifetime.
 
The unbridled misery of supporting Sunderland is like Heroin.

Don’t know that they are missing these lot.
 
Grown men are still genuinely bothered about other people supporting a club not local to them.

Aye, the ones who choose to support Liverpool are definitely the sad bastards...
 
I love Football and love watching games live i.e in the Stadium.
Long story but moved about a lot as a kid and parents settled in East Anglia. Chose to be with my mates and support the local team. Bobby Robson's Ipswich Town. As a kid you think the success would last forever. Interestingly at that time Liverpool were the other team of choice (Surprise Surprise). Even at 8 years old I thought stay local.
Moved to the NE in mid 90's and started to show an interest in Sunderland with mates up here. Never quite got the passion initially but once my kids grew up into MLF's I watched more and more and realised that if I wanted to watch regular football it wouldn't be at Portman Road. As most of the SAFC legends and genuine people say this club gets under your skin and now SAFC are finding ways to shatter my hopes and dream's. Its only 1 week from the devastation of the play off final yet I cant wait for August already. I think most of my decent football supporting mates are very respectful of me as a Sunderland Supporter and getting behind my local team whatever division they are in.
I would take my 2 trips to Wembley this season every time over parading around claiming to be a Liverpool fan as a Champions League winner and having never watch them play.
 
In Denmark there is enough pool fans to watch the chl final at different stadiums around the country. pool and united are by far the most popular teams over here in recent years chelsea has gotten a few supporters and unfortunately more mags then mackam fans
 
Some of the smaller clubs may disappear completely if the trend continues.

Should people not be bothered about that then?
I know correlation doesn’t equal causation but it’s interesting that since Man City became a relative super club North West football has declined rapidly - no Wigan, Bolton or Blackburn in the premier league, likes of Oldham and Bury and Stockport have floundered, might be a pure coincidence like, or is it a case clubs in the region simply can’t cope with another super club on their doorstep ?
I imagine it effects the likes of Bury, Rochdale and Oldham in particular, those clubs probably aren’t even the biggest supported in their own town.
 
I think it's fine to come Wigan and support Liverpool. No one from Hartlepool would get questioned if they supported Sunderland. Also why does my computer think Hartlepool is an incorrectly spelled word!?
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Here in British West Hartlepool, people don't usually pronounce the "H"

'Artlepool.
 
I know correlation doesn’t equal causation but it’s interesting that since Man City became a relative super club North West football has declined rapidly - no Wigan, Bolton or Blackburn in the premier league, likes of Oldham and Bury and Stockport have floundered, might be a pure coincidence like, or is it a case clubs in the region simply can’t cope with another super club on their doorstep ?
I imagine it effects the likes of Bury, Rochdale and Oldham in particular, those clubs probably aren’t even the biggest supported in their own town.

It's because a lot of rich(er) southern/midlands clubs with wealthy owners have installed themselves in the top division (and upper end of the Championship). Brighton, Bournemouth, the Udinese/Watford weirdness, Leicester, Wolves, Fulham etc. That kind of wealth doesn't exist in Lancashire working-class towns. Those that have tried have either been outgunned (Jack Walker would get nowhere today) or spent themselves to the wall. Blackburn, Blackpool, Bolton, Wigan etc.

The south, Arsenal aside, could barely win a league title until the mid 90s. Spurs' stadium project wouldn't exist without public cash flowing into the area after the London Riots. Likewise the West Ham/Olympic Stadium fiasco.
 
I have always lived nearer Newcastle so does that mean I can't be a Sunderland supporter.

Bloody hell I've suffered all these years
I’m a Sunderland supporter from the outskirts of Durham. My whole family follow(ed) the mags as did most of my friends, so I went against the grain and supported the lads. The amount of shit I took was unreal.

That’s why Durham mags are the worst fans ever
 
Me and my sons aren't from Sunderland but they love the club as much as I do. My grandad was from Stockton but other than that all family York born n bred.... However I just love the club in a way I certainly can't articulate to my missus as she doesn't get it... Doesn't matter tho cos first game I ever went to it just felt like home... Like I belonged.
Even this site seems full of kindred spirits...fans Cracking shite one liners in one reply then effin and blinding in another topic.... Its just real life... And for me its 100% Sunderland till I die...
 
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